6/21/2023 0 Comments Beautiful thing by sonia faleiro![]() ![]() ![]() Leela was the best paid dancer at the bar where she worked, and at first sight might have seemed to be a glamorous, successful young woman having a lot of fun. Faleiro has changed the names of nearly all the people who appear in the book to protect their identities and their many confidences in her. It is non-fiction but is constructed like a novel, with a variety of interesting characters and a plot, as Leela must deal with a number of changes in her life. Many of them also slept with men for money, but because her job was dancing not sex, a bar dancer could also see herself as infinitely superior to sex workers, whether street prostitutes, those working in brothels or call girls.ĭespite the book's subtitle, Beautiful Thing is largely the story of one dancer, Leela, through the eyes of Faleiro who met and befriended her in 2005, shortly before the government shut down and outlawed the dance bars. ![]() Bar dancers could earn a lot of money compared to women in other traditional female jobs outside the sex industry, such as cleaners. In 2005, there were 1,500 dance bars in Bombay, so called because they employed women to dance to popular music. ![]()
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